"The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words."
— Jack Kerouac (Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings)

"Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence."
— Samuel R. Delany (Dhalgren)

"All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets."
— Cory Doctorow (Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town)

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them."
— Philip K. Dick

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal."
— Haruki Murakami (Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World)

"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche